Less than a year after the Obama administration’s own lawyers determined Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius could be fired for violating federal law, she’s embroiled in another scandal for unscrupulously soliciting money from healthcare companies to fund Obamacare. Sebelius should have been dismissed for last year’s transgression, according to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which

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An “ongoing and severe epidemic” of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) has pounded the United States with 20 million new cases a year that stick it to the nation’s healthcare system with an astounding $16 billion in medical costs. Happy Valentine’s Day from Uncle Sam! A new report issued this week by the Centers for Disease

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While the U.S. government commits senseless acts like skimping on consulate security in violent North African countries, it spends $500 million to help minorities—especially blacks—enter biomedical research fields where lack of diversity is “disturbing and disheartening.” The grand plan was announced this month by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation’s medical research agency.

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The Obama Administration will spend tens of thousands of dollars to develop a special mobile device application “in different languages and in culturally appropriate contexts” to help “underserved and minority women fight and prevent cancer.” To assure that the app is topnotch, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is offering entrepreneurs money

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has distributed $19 million to nonprofit establishments in urban areas that are considered at high risk of a terrorist attack, including abortion clinics and an Islamic center. The idea is to give the groups the necessary resources to improve security and make them less susceptible to an attack. The

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While the U.S. government is preoccupied monitoring and controlling what American children eat, it’s failing miserably to protect those in foster care from the devastating effects of potent, psychiatric medications that alter the mind. Hundreds of thousands of foster children across the nation are being prescribed powerful psychiatric medications at doses that exceed the maximum

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A controversial Medicare and Medicaid Innovation center created by Obamacare will give “community-based organizations” and other qualified groups $1 billion to devise “compelling new ideas” to deliver better services to those “with the highest health care needs.” The allocation is the perfect complement to the tens of millions of dollars already doled out by another

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Although millions of human lives are at stake, the Obama Administration is on the verge of caving into the demands of leftist animal rights groups by putting chimpanzees on the U.S. government’s endangered species list. This would ban the sort of biomedical research that has helped produce life-saving vaccines for diseases such as Hepatitis B.

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In a case of public assistance gone mad, a United States congresswoman has introduced legislation to give “needy families” free diapers and diapering supplies for their babies in the name of economic development. The measure (Diaper Investment and Aid to Promote Economic Recovery Act) is necessary because, without an adequate supply of diapers, a child

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Living in “high-poverty” neighborhoods causes serious health problems that can be corrected by relocating to more affluent areas, according to a government study that the Obama Administration is using to pave the way for yet another costly entitlement program. In fact, moving to “low-poverty neighborhoods” actually decreases the risk of obesity and diabetes for poor

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